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PHRASES

to make a number of flukes (éilliards)

to chalk one's cue |

to be black under the eyes

to sit up all night

to burst out sobbing

to make a splendid all-round cannon

to miss a stroke (dilliards)

to invite some one to lunch

to clutch a spoon

do let him !

to cut one's meat up into small pieces

with a single stroke of the pen

a tribe of children

he kept all this little flock on his salary

the review of the inspecting general

the outskirts of Paris

it is worth while doing it

to examine sg. closely

in the middle of the back

a hole made by a bullet

to murmur something

Ît is a long way from here to the battle-field of Melegnano

he must have passed this way

now then, where shall I begin ?

to have just come to the end of ones furlough

to receive the earnest money

to be made maior

to be hard on the men

to take a dislike to some one

on the eve of the battle of M.

to shrug one's shoulders

to be we up with a start

to cock one's gun

to shoulder one’s gun

to throw one's head back

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gun) the lungs

an isolated rock

(in the sea)

69 to take off

the wheel

the ammunition-

wagon

70 to hurt

the delirium the fever

/lto balance,

make up for the account, narrative

Words and Phrases 147

WORDS the billow the mouth (9

an animal) the leap

a gash, slash

a streak of blood

to flow

the duty a blackguard the target

an attack, fit a madman to howl, yell to prevent

PHRASES to have no time to do sg.

to feel one's head swim to lose Consciousness

to brandish one's Sword in the air

to lean on one's gun

a flag torn to shreds

I did not know whattodecideon

aS à reward for his brilliant exploit [with sg.

to make some one disgusted

as best I could

a bit of miscellaneous news

to master Some one

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+ We are th: more sorry for it as we we + It is useless for him to complain, nobody listens to him.

+ If you pass that Way, Cast down your eyes and stop your ears. . The shop was all blazing with gas,

+ By the red glimmer of the lamp hanging from the ogive, 1

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